Others jammed meters to take advantage of a new law enacted by the City Council allowing parking at an inoperable meter for as long as time-limit sign allows, instead of just one hour. The law took effect last March.

A City Council official said the management report's explanation didn't make much sense, since motorists could easily have pulled the same stunt before the new law was enacted.

"[The city] might not be repairing them as fast," the official speculated.

The Department of Transportation reported that it has allocated additional resources to inspect and repair meters, and expects things to get back to normal quickly.

I estimate 40-50% of meters in Queens are disabled which is fine by me. The city is not fixing them - I thought the reason would be to roll out the central ticket type metering system that encourages more vehicle spots than the traditional individual meters. So I guess the central meters can be jammed as well except they provide for CC payment as alternative (Metro card next?). Parking is a pain in this city - other city's have done a much better job planning to acomadate this which attract more visitors and consumers to an area. We can surely devise an agreeable means to accomadate more affordable parking.

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